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| Thread ID: 31044 | 2003-03-10 04:33:00 | Two Printers, neither work on one PC. | Danger (287) | Press F1 |
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| 127069 | 2003-04-02 13:40:00 | A continution... my friend just emailed me to say after picking up his computer and using the printer successfully for the first time, the printer now just pulls the paper through without printing, and a dialouge box comes up saying that there is no more info to print. Could anyone confirm that this could be a motherboard problem? There doesn't seem to be any other explanation for it. | Danger (287) | ||
| 127070 | 2003-04-03 04:41:00 | With these integrated printer interfaces (as opposed to rugged TTL chips) I have often seen a warning that you should never unplug or plug pinters when either one or both of printer and computer are powered up. It is possible to "spoil" the internals of the 100 pin or so I/O package.:D It would be cheaper to disable the motherboard printer port and plug in a PCI printer card than to replace the motherboard. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 127071 | 2003-04-03 12:42:00 | Hey this sounds like a possible solution. So I take it there are pci cards that allow a printer conection and so bypass the original conector on the Motherboard? Only possible problem is the modem is in the last pci slot I tried to get that working, it wouldn't work in any of the others. Thanks Graham, I never knew you could get printer cards, but how do I disable the motherboard printer port? In device manager of do you mean physically somehow? |
Danger (287) | ||
| 127072 | 2003-04-04 03:50:00 | The printer card will be less fussy about where it lives. THey are common items ... probably about $50 or so (for a single port board -- you can get double ones). Try Pricespy. The motherboard one can be disabled in the BIOS setup (on most modern boards). It wouldn't matter, probably (DOS allows 3 LPT ports) , but you'ld just have to be careful to set up the printer driver on the correct port. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 127073 | 2003-04-04 04:48:00 | Oops. Pricespy isn't very helpful. "parallel card PCI site:nz" to Google will find you quite a few suppliers ... prices from $35 up. Dick Smith's have a few ISA cards at $5 at a few shops. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 127074 | 2003-04-04 12:22:00 | Thanks Graham, will suggest this to my friend and post back the results. | Danger (287) | ||
| 127075 | 2003-04-12 02:50:00 | Have fitted the pci printer card, and have the printer conected to the correct port, but still can't get the printer to print. I'm guessing something may need disabling somewhere, but what, and where? | Danger (287) | ||
| 127076 | 2003-04-12 02:54:00 | Go into the BIOS setup, and disable the onboard port. (It might appear in a couple of places ... "PCI", and "Legacy" ?) The P&P should have made the new card avoid the MB port, but if the MB port is faulty, who knows? Does the BIOS show two ports present, or one? | Graham L (2) | ||
| 127077 | 2003-04-12 03:17:00 | Under Intergrated periphreials we have Onboard Serial port1 3f8/irq4 Onboard Serial port2 2f8/irq3 Onboard parallel port 378/irq7 Parallel port mode epp. Is it one of these that needs disableing? |
Danger (287) | ||
| 127078 | 2003-04-12 03:19:00 | The "onboard parallel port" needs to be disabled. | Graham L (2) | ||
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